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Thank you. Iit probably stopped being funny for a while. I sometimes have problems with that (ask my wife).Fair enough. Hard to convey tone in this format. I accept you were going for funny.
Thank you. Iit probably stopped being funny for a while. I sometimes have problems with that (ask my wife).Fair enough. Hard to convey tone in this format. I accept you were going for funny.
I think they already have, if the relevant parts of OneD&D match the playtest packets.I think they're going to introduce enough differences that it won't be compatible without a fair amount work on the GM's part, which means that, in practical terms, it won't be compatible.
...and in the vast majority of cases there are right. There are things you can change without breaking compatibility, but not many and you have to be extremely careful.There are a fair number of people on reddit that think that anything less than being nearly identical means incompatible.
I think they're more concerned with getting people onto digital and the book sales are a secondary factor now.If 5.5 doesn't change significantly enough, a lot of people won't bother to buy it and will just keep playing with the books that they already have. If it does change significantly enough that people need to buy the new books, it's not going to be backwards compatible. I think it will change enough that backwards compatibility will not happen.
New compatible rules won't do that, either. They will need to offer other things as incentives, which they can do right now with 5e. Or produce incompatible rules and a new OGL which will require people to go to DDB to play them on a VTT/I think they're more concerned with getting people onto digital and the book sales are a secondary factor now.
You might be right. I mean, they tried to claim that 3e and 3.5 were compatible.Making an edition that is perceived as too incompatible will be a jumping off point for people to stick with 5e and not subscribe to DDB, and that's a bad thing for them.
I also think there will be enough differences that anyone that wants to declare the two editions incompatible will have a case, but they'll also be so similar that anyone that wants to declare the two editions compatible will also have a case. So everyone will both win and lose this argument in the end
Monsters of the Multiverse says hi.If 5.5 doesn't change significantly enough, a lot of people won't bother to buy it and will just keep playing with the books that they already have. If it does change significantly enough that people need to buy the new books, it's not going to be backwards compatible. I think it will change enough that backwards compatibility will not happen.
Not really. If that's the best that they can do a lot of people aren't going to be making the switch. Further, if that's 5.5e, then this whole playtesting this is a farce. Monsters of the Multiverse may have some similarities to what is happening, but it can't be all that there is. And after this fiasco of the last few weeks, WotC will need things to be more drastic if they want to produce a new OGL and gain control of the VTT market.Bottom line is that it has to work with the existing base of millions of people using DnDBeyond.
Monsters of the Multiverse says hi.